Bonitus of Monte Cassino (died c. 584) was a

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monk and abbot of the monastery of

Monte Cassino Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, west of Cassino and at an elevation of . Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is widely known for its abbey, the first h ...

. During his abbacy the monastery was plundered by the

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under Zotto of Benevento and Bonitus fled with his monks to the

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, dying shortly afterwards.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120222044521/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0707.shtml 584 deaths Italian Benedictines Italian abbots category:Benedictine abbots Year of birth unknown 6th-century Italo-Roman people {{Italy-reli-bio-stub